the night, we have the chair of the treasure island board of directors and chairman of the asian american pacificelebration committee c laudine chang. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thank you so much for celebrating -- joining us on this joyous occasion. welcoming and celebrating lunar new year. i am delighted to be your mistress of ceremonies this evening. this year, the chinese new year started on thursday, february 3. lunar new year, 4709, symbolized by the year of the hare. we all know it as a chinese new year but lunar new year was actually celebrated by many ethnic groups within the asian american pacific families, including vietnamese-americans, caribbean-americans, and others. in san francisco, we celebrated with our parade. -- korean-americans, and others. we celebrated the whole month to welcome everybody. it is supposed to be a year of good luck, a year of prosperity and good health so on behalf of mayor edwin lee, i want to welcome you here this evening. [speaking chinese] so we have the celebration in san francisco welcome the community to celebrate the chinese new year for ma

proclaimed may as asian american pacific heritage month in a ceremony.any communicate organizations host events and programs to celebrate and educate. the theme of this year's celebration is celebrate heritage, celebrate unity. immigrants arrived during the gold rush of 1949. we will highlight events in san francisco history that galvanized and united the asian pacific community. the fight for bilingual nejz the schools. the student strikes the workshop system and one unforgettable struggle that captured the attention of the nation the fight against e visions at the international hotel. >> it was horrifying experience where it was bloody and violent. >> [inaudible] on kaerny street a 10 block community where many filipinos lived. in the 1910th and the 20's and 30's. there were night clubs and restaurants and small businesses. it was a lot of the [inaudible] many of them who came in the earlier time they called it home. at the time and the international hotel struggle happened, it was right on kerny and jackson. that was the last building, the last block

city-wide where there is a forum -- the asian-pacific islander forum, the african american forum, the lgbt forum. in the chair. we met last night. these forms are coming together and talking globally -- forums are coming together and talking globally about community concerns. from those forums comes the additional committee engagement -- community engagement. supervisor mirkarimi: i know there are many slices to the pie, but for example -- there has been discussion in this building about people leaving their cars. is that community policing? >> that is one example. we use this as a tool throughout the city. i believe there are 68 identified areas throughout the city the department staffs. what we look for from our captains is what the problems are on a daily/weekly, monthly basis. and to say this problem can be removed by staffing a beat or removing a beat, we are actualizing that. part of this is review. part of it is captains and having a police advisory board, which every capt. has, which is composed by members of their district. they say, this is a problem that is maybe not on you

they are native americans, alaska natives, african-americans, hispanic americans, asian and pacific islander americans, and poor and rural americans of every race and ethnicity. we will develop a budget that treats all americans fairly, does not leave anyone behind, but gets a helping hand to those who need it and also reduces the deficit. we agree with president obama that his budget must put the country on a firm path to winning the future and we know that winning the future means creating opportunity for everyone who lives in this country. but the c.b.c. is further committed to making sure that everyone means everyone. to making sure that those who have been most hurt by this recession and those who have long been marginalized even in the good times have the special help they need to be a part of creating that future and benefiting from it. i cannot believe there could be one member of the congress who does not support our country being number one. who does not want to win the future. but we can't win the future without ensuring that every child has access to quality education and those s

american and in no less need of the services this funding provides. just because they are farther away does not mean the slashing of programs will go unnoticed. as chairwoman of the asian-pacific american caucus, i express strong support for the amendment offered by ms. bordallo and oppose the cuts offered by the republican majority in h.r. 1. thank you and i yield back. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from the northern mariana islands rise? mr. sablan: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sablan: people on the northern mariana islands pay four times the national average for electricity because we're dependent on shipped oil. a grant has helped identify a possible source of geothermal energy on one of the islands. further exploration and more investigation is needed to be sure this will work for us. but without the technical assistance grant, we wouldn't even know we have this possibility of getting off our dependence on expensive foreign oil. now h.r. 1 proposes to cut the funds to help the northern marianas -- marianas and other places. this kind of thinking is penny wise and pound foolish. hel

asian-pacific islander members of the board of supervisors. i know that our colleagues, ross, david, malia, and others are strongly sensitive to the asian-american communities as well. we were joined a few minutes ago by several of our school board members. i know as a former member of the school board -- jane kim as well -- they serve our communities well. one thing that mayor ed lee brought up, for me, personally, lunar new year was a time to get together with family. i remember my grandmother cooking all of the great new year food. it brought us together but it was also an opportunity to share our culture with others, bring more unity among all of our communities. half the lunar new year to everyone and let's unite our communities together. thank you. [applause] >> good evening, my name is carmen chu. i will keep my message brief. i want to wish everyone a happy lunar new year. again, this is a time that is important to many of merit -- asian-american families because of the importance of bringing together family. i think we can all replicate this, the matter what community we live in. so i want to say happy new year. [speaking chinese] [appl

smartphones but smartphone penetration was higher among minority groups, asian pacific islanders at 45%, hispanics, 45%, african-americans, 33%, only 27% of white mobile users reported owning a smartphone. minority wireless consumers are a huge and fast growing economic market. according to the target market news report the buying profile, the buying power of black america released two weeks ago, african-americans spent $9.4 billion on cellular phones and service in 2009 which was an increase of 30% from 2008. with respect to current spectrum policy, mtc has three specific recommendations that will help close the digital divide facing minorities as producers and consumers. first, we would like low power television stagtss to be aloud to participate in dtv intentive auctions. the bill is flowing around congress and ambiguous whether they would be. a handful of full power ssks tagss are minority owned anymore. 15% of low powers are minority owned. these are experienced entrepreneurs who produce compelling content that will be very useful in driving minority broadband adoption. second, we have asked the commission to author

the us and across the pacific meanwhile the american people have suffered high unemployment and a diminished standard of living looking for someone to blame politicians point to asian countries on the rise seemingly at america's expense the american people have also borne the brunt of china's mercantile trade policies which promote trade surpluses through cheap exports based upon an artificial depreciation of china's currency overlooked in washington is the us corporate jungle it's become the elephant in the room this is not the explain to the american working class into the american middle class d. or both destined to oblivion because of all this is decided by corporate boards inside the us which are now global corporations so those who agree say it's right here the problem started that us corporations hijacked american jobs and investment dollars taking them overseas with free rein to boost their bottom line fueled by this mindset so we do look allies two ways of the sellers are nil there's no worker movement to you know cut us off from our maximization of profits and in the us it appears no lawmakers will try to cut them off either president obama after pushing

smartphones but smartphone penetration was higher among minority groups, asian pacific islanders at 45%, hispanics, 45%, african-americans, 33%, only 27% of white mobile users reported owning a smartphone. minority wireless consumers are a huge and fast growing economic market. according to the target market news report the buying profile, the buying power of black america released two weeks ago, african-americans spent $9.4 billion on cellular phones and service in 2009 which was an increase of 30% from 2008. with respect to current spectrum policy, mtc has three specific recommendations that will help close the digital divide facing minorities as producers and consumers. first, we would like low power television stagtss to be aloud to participate in dtv intentive auctions. the bill is flowing around congress and ambiguous whether they would be. a handful of full power ssks tagss are minority owned anymore. 15% of low powers are minority owned. these are experienced entrepreneurs who produce compelling content that will be very useful in driving minority broadband adoption. second, we have asked the commission to author

and talk about this as the pacific decade, the asian decade or even century to come, the waning of europe as a theme i don't see that in your work, but reminding us of the american strategic thinking. >> guest: i'm saying it's the american decade and the american century. look, the collapse of the european imperial system and the soviet union left of the united states standing as a continental power with very deep resources in command of the royal seas with a quarter of the economy, with bases in 27 countries and so on. >> host: right. >> guest: there is nothing even close. talk about the brick countries. the brick countries have to grow all together by 75% so all four equal the united states. >> host: ten years is the united states still sending 50% of the world's military spending. >> guest: yes, i think so. here's the point. the united states will go through extreme troubles and instability. it will be constantly reminding itself that it's on the verge of caption, and it won't collapse. if you look at the speeches in the senate just before the empire bursts out, you see absolute predictions of destruction. >> host: ten years, we'll come